The Mystery of Ana Walshe

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Ana Walshe, a property manager for Tishman Speyer, goes missing January 1, 2023. She is reported missing by her employer and by her husband Brian Walshe. Her husband is arrested on January 8th and charged with misleading the police investigation. Police then obtained a search warrant to the couple’s home where in the basement they find a damaged and bloody knife.

In this episode of Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan and Jackie Howard discuss the timeline of Ana’s disappearance, the bloody knife found in the basement, the logistics of dismembering a body, looking at suspects deviating from their behavior, and much more.

Show Notes:

0:00 - Intro

1:18 - Background and overview of the case

2:45 - The disappearance timeline

4:20 - Bloody knife in the basement

7:20 - Evidence found from blood

10:40 - The husband and tracking his moves

14:20 - Hacksaw

15:20 - Dismembering a body

18:45 - Determining the search radius for a missing body

23:00 - Suspects deviating from their regular behaviors

26:20 - Investigators relying on intuition

28:20 - Death threats

29:45 - Outro

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0:00.0	BODY Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan
0:20.0	Sometimes you sit back as a crime scene investigator and you try to observe things from the
0:26.6	perspective of a clinician somebody that's kind of cold that goes in and just wants the facts but
0:35.0	there are those cases that I don't know teaser humanity out of you at the scene those things that
0:43.4	you look at them and you think how in the world could this possibly have happened today we're
0:52.8	going to talk about a mother and a wife by the name of Anna Walsh we're going to talk about her
1:03.4	disappearance her possible homicide and her dismemberment I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is BODY Bags
1:13.0	joining me today is my friend Jackie Howard executive producer of crime stories with Nancy Grace
1:23.3	Jackie I know that you like much of the country has been following this case for some time I think
1:29.9	that we're left again with the case where we've gotten more questions and answers what do you
1:36.0	think about that I think you are absolutely right the disappearance of Anna Walsh has so
1:42.8	many more questions than answers just like Jennifer Dulose up north this woman disappeared I
1:51.8	mean literally disappeared one day she was here next day cannot find her there's a lot of similarities
1:58.6	between these two cases for that but Anna Walsh left her home she was seen leaving her house with
2:05.2	her bags in hand she worked at a different location she was a real estate professional she had taken
2:13.3	on a new job in the Boston area and she actually traveled from her home in Massachusetts weekly to go
2:20.9	for this position so she was last seen leaving her home with bags in hand according to her husband
2:28.2	and what happened to her after that is the question she's not been seen she did not make the flight
2:34.2	she did not make her new job so they missed her in the office that's when the questions began that's
2:43.2	where our investigation needs to begin how do we start that timeline Joe I don't know that it's
2:50.4	necessarily starting the timeline as much as it is location you know I know that those two things
2:55.6	are kind of married together you've got a husband that's actually stating and he was very specific
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